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Persian Pictures

Gertrude Bell author Liora Lukitz editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Anthem Press

Published:15th May '05

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A brilliant, vivid and impressionistic series of sketches formed during Gertrude Bell’s 1892 stay in Persia.

'Persian Pictures' is both travelogue and meditation, an elegiac and beautifully observed account of a spellbinding land.

This brilliant, vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, formed during her 1892 stay in Persia, is Gertrude Bell's first published work. Infused with a distinctive orientalism, 'Persian Pictures' is an evocative, virtuosic meditation, moving sinuously between Persia's heroic, complex, mythical past and its present decline; the public face of Tehran and the otherworldly 'secret, mysterious life of the East', the lives of its women, its enclosed, quasi-medieval gardens; from the bustling cities to the lonely wastelands of Khorasan. Bell's documentation of Muharram – the month of mourning for Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed – and Ramadan, display a mind finely attuned to the differences and similarities between Islam and Christianity, East and West. 'Persian Pictures' is both travelogue and meditation, an elegiac and beautifully observed account of a spellbinding land.

ISBN: 9781843311690

Dimensions: 199mm x 140mm x 26mm

Weight: 454g

136 pages